P. parritae x P. caerulea 'Constance Eliot'?
I'm curious what people think a hybrid between Passiflora parritae and P. caerulea 'Constance Eliot' would be like.
Both of these plants are well-known for completely different reasons.
P. caerulea is the most commonly grown passionflower and is known for its temperature tolerance, its vigor and its floriferousness. Here's a picture of the 'Constance Eliot' clone from Myles Irvine's website:
http://www.passionflow.co.uk/passiflora-constance-eliott.htm
This variety of P. caerulea is known for being white--in other words it's lack of color.
P. parritae, on the other hand, is known for its flower's intense orange color and enormous size. Unlike P. caerulea it is very rare, hard to propagate, and possibly extinct in the wild. Like many Tacsonias it only does well within a very specific climate--limited to coastal California in the U.S.
Here's a picture of flowers also from Myles'site:
http://www.passionflow.co.uk/parritae1.htm
So let's imagine a hybridizer could work some magic and create a hybrid between the two. I'm curious what people think the hybrid might be like--something that looks like P. parritae but is able to live in zone 7 and take hot and humid summers? Or something resembling P. caerulea that is only really happy between 35 and 85 F and is difficult to propagate? Or perhaps something in between?
There are of course no wrong answers.
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